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📣 jonatron

Where can I get a old Android studio?


The oldest one on https://developer.android.com/studio/archive is Android Studio 2.3.2, which isn't old enough. I have an android 2.1 device that I want to make an app for.

  👤 jonatron Accepted Answer ✓
Update: using the ADT bundle of eclipse+SDK. https://stackoverflow.com/a/27682695

Using with sdkman, 8.0.302-open, because openjdk 11 is too new.

Mirroring the stackoverflow comment:

For historic reasons, I leave you the links to the last versions of ADT:

    linux 64 bit: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-linux-x86_64-20140702.zip
    linux 32 bit: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-linux-x86-20140702.zip
    MacOS X: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702.zip
    Win32: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-windows-x86-20140702.zip
    Win64: http://dl.google.com/android/adt/adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20140702.zip
After that, you can update ADT plugin after 20140702 version. This answer was intended for the ones starting from zero.
👤 omnibrain
Android Studio didn’t exist back then. Look for “Android Developement Tools”, IIRC they were an Eclipse Plugin back in the day.
👤 orangecat
You shouldn't need an older version of Android Studio, just set minSdkVersion appropriately in the manifest. Are you having specific problems?
👤 lawgimenez
I still have it on my 2005 laptop if you want it. It’s an Android Platform Tools for Eclipse IDE. Not sure if I can make it run for you though.
👤 stop50
you need eclipse. Even the earliest version of android studio only supported higher versions. And you need the sdks, java and maybe an old adb version.